A Hamas terrorist who took part in the October 7 massacre was killed in a targeted air strike in Gaza on Saturday, officials today revealed.
Abd al-Fattah Abu al-Eish was a commander in the Nukhba Force – the Hamas “special forces” unit – who infiltrated the northwest Negev as part of the atrocities in which 1,200 men, women and children were murdered.
Hamas operative Raed Adel Mohammed Alyan was also killed in the air strike.
Precision-guided munitions and aerial surveillance were used to reduce the risk to noncombatants.
Also on Saturday, the IDF struck a Hamas commander in the Deir al-Balah area in the central Gaza Strip while he was hiding within the compound of Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital, the military said.
The terrorist recently advanced attacks on IDF troops and Israeli civilians and was targeted to remove the threat, the army said.
He was said to to be involved in efforts to restore Hamas’s capabilities, in systematic violation of the ceasefire.
An official statement said: “Recently, the terrorists advanced terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians and operated to rehabilitate the capabilities of the terrorist organization, in systematic violation of the ceasefire.
“The strike was conducted in order to remove the threat posed.”
The IDF criticised Hamas’s “cynical use of humanitarian infrastructure and its systematic embedding within medical facilities to advance and carry out terrorist activity.”
It relayed that a warning was conveyed to medical authorities throughout Gaza on Aug. 27 regarding the cessation of the use of medical facilities for terrorist purposes. “It was made clear that the IDF will act against any threat should such activity continue,” the military noted.
Steps were taken to mitigate the risk to civilians during the strike, including the use of precise munitions and aerial surveillance, the IDF said.
On Friday, the IDF killed two Hamas terrorists in Gaza: Nukba Force company commander Hai Fakhri Mazloum and a sniper named Hassan Zidan Hassan Deiri, the military said.
Deiri and Mazloum were also involved in the trafficking and supply of weapons to Hamas terrorists.
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